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Article #17766Re: Bug in Word 3.01!
From: David Palmer
Date: Fri, 31 Jul 1987 16:26
Date: Fri, 31 Jul 1987 16:26
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In article <6856@steinmetz.steinmetz.UUCP> hallett@hamlet.UUCP (Hallett) writes:
>In article <3410@cit-vax.Caltech.Edu> palmer@tybalt.caltech.edu.UUCP
> (David Palmer) writes:
>>I have had my copy of Word 3.01 for almost an hour now.
>
>Gee, how long has Microsoft been shipping 3.01?? Haven't gotten mine
>yet.
More than an hour, less than a week.
>>The spelling checker does not recognize the words 'hoses' and 'noses'
>>even though they are in the dictionary. ('roses' and 'poses' are
>>recognized however.) Moreover, the 'suggest'ed replacement for
>>'hoses' is 'hoses', but the replacement for 'noses' is noose.
>
>How strange. Did it work in 3.0?
No it didn't, which is why it was the first thing I tried.
On the positive note, the word na:ive (where :i represents an
i with diereses (double dots) over it) is no longer broken
up into 'na' and ':ive'. (Word 2.0 treated ':o' properly,
but not ':i')
David Palmer
palmer@tybalt.caltech.edu
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